Category Archives: productivity

Sep 16 2012

Set Up a Household Notebook

September – Week Three – Organizational: Set Up a Household Notebook

A  Household Notebook  is a helpful and easy tool to set up. The contents of my household notebook includes many free printables from the websites below, and more can be found at OrganizedHome.com or Frugal Living. This Tipnut post leads to lots of links to Household Notebook forms. My favorite cover is from newbeehomeschooler.com.

CALENDAR

CAR

CHECKLISTS

CONTACTS

GOALS

HEALTH

HOME

IDEAS & INFORMATION

MONEY

MEALS

PLANNING

See the Free Tools page of the Daily PlanIt for more productivity forms.

Delicious links to more Household Notebook Printables.

Feb 27 2012

Time Management Questions

February – Mental – Week Four – Activity: Plan weekly and daily


10 Minutes 10 Questions for Productivity

  1. What projects will accomplish goals?
  2. What actions will accomplish projects?
  3. What are your repeating work tasks?
  4. What are your repeating home tasks?
  5. What are your favorite menu plans?
  6. What are your favorite recreational activities?
  7. Which actions are top priority?
  8. What’s the next action required? (David Allen) …learn more at GTD Essentials
  9. What is the best use of your time right now? (Alan Lakein)
  10. What activities am I not doing, that might help me reach goals if I did them? (Brian Tracy)

 

Have you increased your productivity this week? Productivity is an important skill to develop, which enables you to more effectively use your time for reaching your goals. This is a big activity to tackle, so take this week to really focus on two skills:

1) Plan weekly: choose a weekly plan form (see more @Free Tools), and take a few minutes to do a weekly review.

2) Plan daily: review, use a to-do list, and add incoming tasks to your system.

Feb 26 2012

Two New Free Tools to Plan & Measure Goal Progress

I added two new tools to the Daily PlanIt Free Tools page: 1) a foldable weekly and daily plan form (doc), and 2) a new and improved Annual chart for weekly goals (doc)  This form is for measuring progress toward a SMART goal like this one:

I will [do what] plan weekly [how] with a weekly review using this form [when] every Sunday morning [for how long] 10 minutes [measured by] an annual chart for weekly goals [by when] by target date of a year from today.

Feb 19 2012

Top Ten Ways to Improve Productivity

  1. Choose a system to manage your calendar, tasks, and lists that works well for you.
  2. Set priorities.
  3. Use your system to Plan weekly, Plan daily, schedule, add and delete tasks.
  4. Eliminate clutter and unnecessary stuff.
  5. Break large tasks down.
  6. Remind yourself of tasks with timers, alarms, and/or a tickler system.
  7. Organize the information you need in files.
  8. Automate repeating tasks as much as possible.
  9. Maximize your use of available free time.
  10. Have a regular time to review progress.

 

Jul 25 2010

Weekly Review Questions

10 Minutes 10 Questions for a Weekly Review

  1. How does what actually happened in the past week compare to what you had planned?
  2. What went well?
  3. What didn’t go so well?
  4. Did you make good use of available discretionary time? (time left after job description activities, maintainance and repeating tasks)
  5. How can you increase the amount discretionary time?
  6. How did you waste time?
  7. What changes can you make to eliminate time-wasters?
  8. What can you do to increase productive activities?
  9. What activities can you change to increase positive energy?
  10. What will you do next week?

see also: Weekly Review, Weekly Plan, Planning, Tools, and Paper Planner Tool for the Weekly Review

GTD weekly review see also Trigger Questions (pdf) from Paauwerfully Organized.